Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a44619525d21994a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:34:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7503d8500cb276a04d1fd8fe7905bea4 SHA-1: 7f16beaa032fb4a1c8a2063b35a7c26187675a8f SHA-256: a44619525d21994a915f574d598e8ebb52d38f09ddf0f0bca84b3a8d7b9e9562
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/267902250.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/mefizenulelam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qpshouse.com/upload/image/file/zaponedidufezudapasoxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb6687f428---xuvexivifupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghedanang.com/media/ftp/file/puzufelumawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0939009a7a6afe6062b1ffd61986fa9a/12604277880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/dujedefibolifoforujek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/suwidenerudumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascii.tn/web/cgi/file/gejofitiduniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misbahelmudii.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luwaposuromopobodogugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/287230d7348eb67e15a60c68bec962bb/43678813639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/3132742747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup1.com/contents//files/23286853100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oasis-inwaste.asia/files/file/wirikegiredameragez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b81c45a8157d3b18d4fbbb4bcc5e9a59/rosexozetarexiden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/xatunarudaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinedafoundation.org/imageuploads/file/bulovuputab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82079355873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c34875a90aa---jofurapolixafipaperen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swiftnb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/votobagifexukuwomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd49c260f8---sosobesitadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3f3eg06uva98q7plev2cjarh9/81758772153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nl4bb7c3qoksdb3li7g9ddde57/49805025885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=vacuna+hepatitis+b+mexico+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/9730096008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d763.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD763 18052 bytes
SHA-256: 0b4468936b8000add56ffda7b7d18a6246112139588e3878965996aecdebb5c8
font_01_sfnt_off0001068d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1068D 11048 bytes
SHA-256: b0240d403decc9b4a03948b72d384a5f7438bb40953c71529cbb5155966e650c
font_02_sfnt_off00011fea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1